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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

It was far more fascinating than military logistics, so within a few years I decided to leave and headed out to Australia and worked for a consulting company for two or three years. You see that as well in the actual distribution centre networks. For others it means having really good visibility for outbound distribution.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Australia too sent immediate support package of ventilators, oxygen tanks and PPE Kits. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. DHL and FEDEX played a major role in inbound logistics and distribution.

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. That is where he learned his foundation in warehousing and distribution as well as logistics. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. What processes changed throughout the pandemic?

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. That is where he learned his foundation in warehousing and distribution as well as logistics. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. What processes changed throughout the pandemic?

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Made in “I Really Don’t Know”

Talking Logistics

As reported in USA Today : [In a sourcing practice nicknamed “China plus one”], big brands like Rip Curl send their specifications — what they want made and how much they’re willing to pay for it — to sourcing agents, who find factories that agree to fulfill them. no metrics, operate in functional silos).

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

Now all of a sudden we have grown from where we were to where we are now, and we can see that if we triple the size of our business again in the next 2–3 years, we’re going to need to have a far easier supply chain, and a far easier source of supply of those ingredients to ensure that we can actually deliver that growth.”

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Benchmarking Success: Focus on what Matters

Logistics Bureau

My first step was to engage Benchmarking Success (BMS) to understand what the “best” for each business really meant from an independent source. We set our performance targets according to the best-in-class metrics and I ended up helping these three companies successively achieve demonstrable best-in-class supply chain performance.